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  2. Education in Bulgaria - Wikipedia

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    Education in Bulgaria is guided and overseen by Bulgarian Ministry of Education and Science. Compulsory education includes three years of pre-primary education, primary education, and secondary education. [1][2] The schools start by age of seven and end the age of 18. Compulsory education at state schools is free of charge.

  3. Social system - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. In sociology, a social system is the patterned network of relationships constituting a coherent whole that exist between individuals, groups, and institutions. [1] It is the formal structure of role and status that can form in a small, stable group. [1] An individual may belong to multiple social systems at once; [2] examples of social ...

  4. Manifest and latent functions and dysfunctions - Wikipedia

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    Manifest functions are the consequences that people see, observe or even expect. It is explicitly stated and understood by the participants in the relevant action. The manifest function of a rain dance, used as an example by Merton in his 1957 Social Theory and Social Structure, is to produce rain, and this outcome is intended and desired by people participating in the ritual.

  5. Sociology of education - Wikipedia

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    t. e. The sociology of education is the study of how public institutions and individual experiences affect education and its outcomes. It is mostly concerned with the public schooling systems of modern industrial societies, including the expansion of higher, further, adult, and continuing education. [1]

  6. Pepka Boyadjieva - Wikipedia

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    Pepka Alexandrova Boyadjieva was born on December 26, 1954, in the then town of Mihailovgrad, now Montana, Bulgaria. She graduated in philosophy with a specialization in sociology in 1976 at Sofia University, defended her PhD dissertation in 1980, and the next one for Doctor Habilis of Sociological Sciences in 1999.

  7. Population transfer - Wikipedia

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    Population transfer. Population transfer or resettlement is a type of mass migration that is often imposed by a state policy or international authority. Such mass migrations are most frequently spurred on the basis of ethnicity or religion, but they also occur due to economic development. Banishment or exile is a similar process, but is ...

  8. Education policy - Wikipedia

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    Education policy consists of the principles and policy decisions that influence the field of education, as well as the collection of laws and rules that govern the operation of education systems. [1] Education governance may be shared between the local, state, and federal government at varying levels. Some analysts see education policy in terms ...

  9. Sociology of knowledge - Wikipedia

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    The sociology of knowledge is the study of the relationship between human thought, the social context within which it arises, and the effects that prevailing ideas have on societies. It is not a specialized area of sociology. Instead, it deals with broad fundamental questions about the extent and limits of social influences on individuals ...